Stemmed cup with rose and quail in falangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

Stemmed cup with rose and quail in falangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

• Image Number: K1B017947N000000000PAD
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/ceramics/ceramics
• Description:
  The mouth is wide, the wall is deep, and the foot is hollow. The white glaze inside the vessel has no decorative pattern, and the outer wall is painted with rose, quail and lake stone flowers, symbolizing “peace in the four seasons”. The feet are decorated with curly grass, dot pattern and banana leaf pattern. Beside the ornamentation, there are inscriptions: “On a few colorful feasts carved every year, you can hear the news of hundreds of victories reporting double quails”, and three idle seals, “Renhe”, “Qing”, and “Yan”, with four characters in regular script “Made in the year of Qianlong” written in blue.